Quotes about Affection

The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting.

The things we love tell us who we are.

The human heart is always drawn by love.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

My sole occupation is love.

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.

True gratitude or thankfulness to God for his kindness to us, arises from a foundation laid before, of love to God for what he is in himself; whereas a natural gratitude has no such antecedent foundation. The gracious stirrings of grateful affection to God, for kindness received, always are from a stock of love already in the heart, established in the first place on other grounds, viz. God's own excellency.